What is the time variable?

[Jeremy8]

OK, well I'm doing this in my templates. I put that stuff in a plugin... but I don't really understand how plugins work.

Because then I went to my template and put <vb:if condition="$hourofday==6">stuff to do here</vb:if> and messed with the times

I also did <vb:if condition="$hourofday">test</vb:if> to see if it even existed... but $hourofday didn't have any value apparently... ?

this was my plugin:

$timestamp = TIMENOW - $vbulletin->options['hourdiff'];
$hourofday = date("G", $timestamp );